McCormick Estates Records, 1841-1969
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Subseries: Volumes
Note: All volumes in this series were kept by McCormick Estates personnel in behalf of the trustees and conservators for Mary Virginia McCormick. Therefore, many volumes are stamped or titled “Trustees,” but they concern only Miss McCormick, her care, and her estate. Exception: Five diaries of her farm manager at “Kildare” are filed in Box 11.
Cashbooks
Volume   1
Jan. 1890-Dec. 1904
Volume   2
Jan. 1905-May 1916
Volume   3
June 1916-Dec. 1930
Volume   4
Jan. 1940-Oct. 23, 1952
Volume   5
Cash Journal, July 1905-1933
Scope and Content Note: Daily cash disbursements for personal and living expenses, July 1905-Mar. 1910. Daily cash receipts and disbursements, Apr. 1910-1933.
Box   12
Volume   6
Bills Receivable and Payable, 1889, 1893-1923
Scope and Content Note: Bills receivable, 1889, 1898-1923. Bills payable, 1908-1920. Loans, 1893-1914.
Box   12
Volume   7
Securities, 1890-Apr. 1922
Scope and Content Note: Stocks and bonds transactions for M. V. McCormick. Indexed.
Volume   8
Daybook, Jan. 1890-Jan. 22, 1940
Scope and Content Note: Daily record of receipts and disbursements re securities, real estate, investments, taxes, and insurance; incl. accounts re M. V. McCormick's share of the estate of her father, Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., and stock in the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co.
Ledgers
Volume   9
1890-1902
Scope and Content Note: Yearly summaries of financial accounts for stocks and bonds, bills receivable and payable, real estate transactions, loans, expenses, profit and loss, inventories. Typewritten, 1890-1899; handwritten, 1900-1902.
Volume   10
Jan. 1890-Jan. 1923
Scope and Content Note: Record of receipts and disbursements, real estate, investments, taxes, and insurance; incl. accounts re her share of the estate of her father, Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr., and stock in the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Bound index inside.
Volume   11
May 1923-July 1949
Scope and Content Note: Accounts for all phases of M. V. McCormick's financial affairs from 1923 to her death in 1941, and for her estate, 1941-1949.
Volume   12
Jan. 1906-Jan. 1913
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of personal and living expenses grouped as to purpose for disbursements. Indexed.
Journals
Scope and Content Note: “Private accounts” - distribution of daily disbursements for M. V. McCormick.
Volume   13
Jan. 1890-Feb. 1901
Volume   14
Feb. 1901-July 1904
Volume   15
Aug. 1904-Jan. 1909
Volume   16
Feb. 1909-Feb. 1912
Volume   17
Real Estate, 1899-1922
Scope and Content Note: Record of sales of lots and installment payments in “McCormick Subdivision”; incl. the Walker Block Calif. Ave., Rockwell St., W. 22nd, and W. 25th, Chicago.
Volume   18
Real Estate - buildings, Mar. 1900-Jan. 1910
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of all expenses on buildings owned in whole or in part by M. V. McCormick. Indexed.
Volume   19
Real Estate - buildings, Feb. 1910-1913
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of all expenses on buildings owned in whole or in part by M. V. McCormick.
Volume   20
Statements, May 1929-Apr. 1941
Scope and Content Note: Daily maintenance and alteration expenditures on M. V. McCormick's properties in Santa Monica and Pasadena, Calif.
Ledgers
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of monthly household expenses by numbered accounts; from the Grace T. Walker reports in loose manuscripts in Boxes 5 to 8.
Volume   21
1912-1913
Volume   22
1914-1915
Volume   23
1916-1919
Volume   24
1920-1922
Volume   25
1923-1926
Household accounts
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of accounts by purpose for disbursements for M. V. McCormick's homes: “Kildare” in Alabama; “Oaklands” in Toronto, Canada; “Caravels” in Massachusetts, and “Riven Rock” in California.
Volume   26
Feb. 1909-Dec. 1914
Volume   27
1915-1927
Volume   28
1928-May 1932
Note: ”Riven Rock” omitted.
Box   12
Volume   29
“Riven Rock”, 1896-Jan. 1907
Scope and Content Note: Distribution of monthly household expense accounts, Montecita, Calif.
Box   12
Volume   30
“Riven Rock”, July 1897-Apr. 1906
Scope and Content Note: Labor account for erection of house, and maintenance of house and grounds; general expenses, Montecita, Calif.
Volume   31
“Kildare”, June 1923-Apr. 1931
Scope and Content Note: Audit report and account record for M. V. McCormick's farm at Huntsville, Ala.
Box   12
Volume   32
“Kildare”, Apr. 28, 1931
Scope and Content Note: Special report on M. V. McCormick's farm at Huntsville, Ala.
“Kildare” - Diaries of J. W. Baxter, farm manager
Box   11
Volume   33
1924
Box   11
Volume   34
1926
Note: 1925 is missing.
Box   11
Volume   35
1927
Box   11
Volume   36
1928
Box   11
Volume   37
1929
Box   12
Volume   38
“Quelinda”, Nov. 1932
Scope and Content Note: Preliminary engineering report on landslides at M. V. McCormick's Santa Monica, Calif. property.
Volume   39
“Quelinda”, Nov. 1932
Scope and Content Note: Geologic report on Santa Monica, Calif. property following landslides, Sept. and Oct. 1932; Potrero Fault.
Volume   40
“Quelinda Estate - Geologic Folio”
Scope and Content Note: Geologic study of landslides, Nov. 1932.
Box   11
Volume   41
Notebook, 1941, with Anita McCormick Blaine note dated , June 16, 1952
Scope and Content Note: Re settlement of M. V. McCormick's estate, and meetings between Mrs. Blaine and lawyers.